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Catoblepas

@ Catoblepas @piefed.blahaj.zone

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  • What's the craziest thing you've seen on public transportation?

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  • Not my story, but it’s so good I have to share it: my classmate told me about how she was on a bus and some guy was arguing with the bus driver about fare or something, and the bus driver just gets up, takes off his bus driver vest thing, and fucking walks off the job! She said everyone on the bus was like WTF. Then when she left the bus and went to another bus stop to try to get home the driver was also just waiting at that stop, because obviously he drove the bus there and had no other way to get anywhere 😂

  • We are good up to Leopards. Sorry about the Tiger.

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  • Two leopards, there’s a two pet limit!

  • I'm new to lemmy, came from reddit. What's the lemmy etiquette like? How different is it from reddiqutte?

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  • That’s an offensive stereotype. Some of us are autistic humanities nerds who are trying to be helpful, but come off as know-it-all and rude!

  • How long after starting Vitamin D supplements should you notice results?

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  • If you have an underlying psychiatric condition like depression then bringing your vitamin D levels to normal might improve your mood and it might not. When I got put on a vitamin D supplement after the doctor caught how low I was my biggest improvement was my energy more than my mood, but being tired all the time will make you feel like shit too.

    People have already mentioned you should make sure you’re actually deficient by going to the doctor, but it’s also important to determine why you’re deficient. If you know you just don’t ever get sunlight, well, mystery solved. But if you do then vitamin D deficiencies can also be caused by things like intestinal disorders.

    If the issue is not getting enough sunlight, check out the Sunbeam app. I have it as a safety thing because the UV here is godawful, but it also gives you a timer based on the current UV strength for how long you need to stay outside to get your daily vitamin D. Because it’s winter it’s like 40 minutes where I am today, but in the summer it can be as low as 5-10.

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    Every time a stranger has saved me from something they always dressed in the same "unusual" way. Is this actually weird though?

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  • 5 This is a reflection of the tendency of this particular social group (chavs? Not a Brit spotting expert) to spot and act immediately in response to emergencies rather than ignoring it, waiting for others to act, or pulling out a phone to film

    6 Something else we haven’t thought of

  • What's an unscientific opinion that you firmly hold?

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  • Keep your words out of my mouth

    If you meant something else by:

    ain’t no way she wrote a book.

    I’m open to hearing it. But I’m not sure how you believed that statement gave the impression you thought she was literate.

  • What's an unscientific opinion that you firmly hold?

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  • It’s depressing to me that one of the top upvoted comments here is ‘there’s no way a deaf blind person could have been literate.’

    You’re absolutely correct that her legacy has been used as inspiration porn, but that doesn’t reflect on her intellectual abilities at all, just what stories society and the powerful want us to hear. Even during her own life Keller experienced exactly that once she became a socialist, and suddenly all the newspapers and people who went on at length about how capable she was suddenly believed her unable to reason because she was blind and deaf. Keller herself even spoke out against using her story as a way to tell people that anyone can do anything, and specifically that the poor didn’t have the opportunities she had.

  • Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy

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  • Fr, my phone was over 3x as old when I traded it in, and it wasn’t even broken. I just knew I had to replace it in the next 4 years and didn’t want to get hit with tariffs.

    2 years is a good start for people who trade in annually, though. Gotta start somewhere!

  • British plugs

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  • I’m glad they’ve never managed to puncture my sneakers while hiking, because god knows I’ve had enough embedded in my soles when I check.

  • Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass

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  • Is there a drug that can give an autist a "normie experience"?

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  • No worries, that was a good read too!

  • Is there a drug that can give an autist a "normie experience"?

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  • Please update if you do, I always like reading about that kind of thing.

  • social interaction

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  • Did you get it at Hot Topic or Spencer’s? ;)

  • George Takei (TOS), Rebecca Romijn (SNW), Tig Notaro (DIS, SA) and Karim Diané (SA) will be on the Rose Parade Float

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  • They’re already putting up stadium seating for the parade along the roads in Pasadena, it’s pretty wild. Dunno if I want to battle the winter weather, I’ve lived in LA 12+ years and never done the Rose Parade, but the Trek stars make it tempting!

  • Needs a wedding ring

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  • It’s a reference to a very old internet shock image called goatse, which showed a man’s anus stretched open.

  • Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall

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  • Oxford sells abridged dictionaries for under $10. 99% of people aren’t using it for 20 encyclopedias worth of etymological research, they’re using it to figure out how to spell a word or what it means.

  • Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall

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  • They aren’t under any obligation to provide the fruit of their labour free of charge.

    Maybe the £8.7 billion endowment university that employs them should make sure they’re adequately compensated for their work, and not people who want to know how to spell a word.

  • Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall

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  • The most offensive part is the monthly price point. What goo between the ears business idiot convinced these people they could charge more than a Netflix (+ ads) subscription for the dictionary? You could literally buy a brand new one and set it on fire every month for that cost. Fucking leeches.

  • Trying to learn "how money works"

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  • OpenStax has free, college level books available online, without registration (although if you register it will save sections you highlight for later review). In their business section, one called Principles of Finance seems to match what you’re wanting to learn. It’s structured more around learning business related finances than personal ones, but the underlying principles are much the same for both.

  • Ideas for computer challenges for a 7yo

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  • Reader Rabbit was something I enjoyed around that age. Zoombinis was fun too!

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    Study Finds Trans Women's Blood Proteins Resemble Cis Women's After 6 Months on HRT

    www.erininthemorning.com /p/study-finds-trans-womens-blood-proteins
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    State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned

    www.assignedmedia.org /breaking-news/attorneys-general-defend-trans-americans-ftc-investigation-healthcare
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    Park ranger fired after helping drape a transgender pride flag on Yosemite's El Capitan

    www.nbcnews.com /nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/park-ranger-fired-helping-drape-transgender-pride-flag-yosemites-el-ca-rcna225662
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    Los Angeles-area leaders denounce repeated dog poop attacks on LGBTQ+ youth center

    ktla.com /news/local-news/bell-leaders-denounce-repeated-dog-poop-attacks-on-lgbtq-youth-center/
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    Bonus ugly horse statue

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    LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find

    arstechnica.com /ai/2025/08/researchers-find-llms-are-bad-at-logical-inference-good-at-fluent-nonsense/
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    The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says

    gizmodo.com /the-world-will-enter-a-15-year-ai-dystopia-in-2027-former-google-exec-says-2000641195
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    Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice?

    www.theverge.com /health/718049/google-med-gemini-basilar-ganglia-paper-typo-hallucination